Knowledge sharing and value co-creation: designing a service system for fostering inter-generational cooperation

This paper highlight the necessity of knowledge transfer and sharing between young and old people, to avoid losing their skills and tacit knowledge and to co-create value. The paper indicates that a common place could facilitate the exchange of knowledge and experience between these two generations, thus fostering value co-creation. Enterprises, in this era of unprecedented technolog- ical and scientific advance, need of knowledge to create a competitive ad- vantage and they mustn’t lose it. At this aim, paper finally introduces a case study, the “5020 project”, an intergenerational agreement for work and training, made through a platform of recruitment and work team creation. Based on this platform, the project fosters knowledge transfer, creating teams composed by young and old people, which working together in ICT field, share the knowledge acquired in the past (respectively at school and on the job), co-create value and offer it as a better service to enterprises

Knowledge sharing and value co-creation: Designing a service system for fostering inter-generational cooperation

This paper highlights the necessity of knowledge transfer and sharing between young and old people, to avoid skills and expertises loss by the organizations and for co-creating value. The paper depicts how the use of a digital platform providing a common place in which people act and interact could facilitate the exchange of knowledge and experience between these two generations, thus fostering value co-creation. A case study describing the \u201c5020 project\u201d is presented in which this kind of a digital platform is developed. In this scenario, mixed work groups, composed by young and old people, are created, in which people, working together, share the knowledge acquired in the past (respectively at school and on the job by experiences), co-creating value and providing good solutions to requests of enterprise

The impact of dimethoate on the spatial distribution of beneficial arthropods in winter wheat

The within-field spatial distribution of beneficial arthropods was assessed using two-dimensional grids of pitfall traps and suction sampling across two winter wheat fields of 4 and 16 ha, before and after an application of dimethoate. An unsprayed 6 m wide buffer zone was left around half the edge of the larger field. Arthropod numbers fluctuated to varying extents prior to spraying. Two species of Carabidae (Pterostichus madidus and P. melanarius), Linyphiidae, Lycosidae and Aphidius spp. (Braconidae) all showed their greatest reduction after spraying. For five carabid taxa, Tachyporus spp. (Staphylinidae) and Collembola the decline in numbers following spraying was no greater than any reduction found during the pre-spraying period. Within field spatial distributions of three arthropod groups were analysed using SADIE. P. madidus, present in patches across the centre of both fields prior to spraying, was removed by dimethoate and by 34 days after spraying had recovered most at the field edges. Linyphiidae were evenly distributed across both fields prior to spraying. Their numbers were reduced considerably by dimethoate and they did not recover to pre-spray levels. However, where recovery occurred this was across the centre of both fields indicating their potential to reinvade whole fields. Aphidius species were also evenly distributed across both fields prior to spraying, but did not recover after spraying. Some, but not all arthropods survived within the unsprayed buffer zone and there was some indication that reinvasion of the mid-field was more extensive where this was present. The importance of field margins with respect to insecticide treatments is discussed